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The only reason I'm on a Google rom is because I can't get confirmation that I can cast Netflix to a Chromecast with microG. It's the only Google ecosystem thing that matters to me. If they try to break my phone then I finally get to get over that hump, no loss. Almost everything in my phone is F-Droid ("side-loaded" is such a loaded phrase)
I'm also hopeful that this move will get struck down given the recent anti competitive practices cases they've lost.
i have a degoogled Samsung something running lineageos and was able to easily cast to a friends google tv thing through vlc
Yeah, I've got an actual Chromecast, not a Google TV, so I can't install anything on it. I have enough computers around that buying anything new would be redundant, but nothing works quite like a Chromecast.
i truly don't know the difference, this guys was a little disk that plugged in hdmi. let me look it up and see if i was a cast. (who knew google had more than one 'smart tv' product line)
edit- from what i see, it was a cast
The name is really just branding - Chromecast, Google Cast and Google TV have all been used for radically different Cast Receiver products. The important part though is that my device doesn't have Android TV installed on it; it doesn't have Apps and I can't install VLC on it.
(If you meant VLC was on the mobile device, I believe this is a separate system where you stream from the mobile device to the Cast Receiver thingy. The big value of Chromecast (the standard) is that the mobile device doesn't do any real work, just tells the Cast Receiver where to look for the stream. If I misunderstand the situation let me know, I'm eternally hopeful)
vlc was from my phone yeah, which is why i was surprisdd jt worked so well and easily
That was a completely different environment. Dont forget who was watching from the balcony at inauguration.